Senior Backend Developer Full Time

McCabe & Barton

• Senior Backend Developer (JavaScript, Typescript, NodeJS)
• Location: Central London
• Salary: £100-115k
• Hybrid working model (2 days pw in office)

An industry leading FinTech start-up are looking for a Senior Backend NodeJS Developer with Typescript & Javascript to work on continuing to build their award winning scalable distributed component-based AI platform including – configurable workflows, flexible APIs and advanced business intelligence.

We are looking to hire an experienced, professional, and enthusiastic Back End developer to work on greenfield projects, joining a close-knit team of 4 other developers.

Role Summary

• Work with professional software engineering practices and set best practices for the full software development life cycle
• Collaborate closely with team members and product owners to share best practice as well as discuss and motivate design solutions
• Develop with a test-driven approach and employ well established design and architecture principles
• Write functional and integration test suites
• Contribute to performance and failure testing
• Drive and participate in the team’s agile practices
• Take part in continuous improvement of the development process
• Ensure Secure software development guidelines are followed.
• Uncover security threats and bugs and provide remedials to any concerns.
• Assist Security & Compliance team to build and continuously improve secured software development practices.
• Work closely with Security & Compliance teams to maintain continuous compliance with key industry standards like ISO 27001, SOC2T2, Cyber Essentials etc.

Required Technical Skills

• Language – JavaScript, Typescript, NodeJS
• Framework – NestJS/Express/Microservices/Mongoose
• Data Stores – MongoDB, Relational Databases, TSDBs, Caches
• Messaging – Kafka/AMQP/RabbitMQ
• API – OpenAPI/GraphQL/GRPC
• Testing – Jest/Mocha/Cypress/React testing library
• Build Tools – Nx Dev/Yarn/npm
• Security – JWT, Oauth2
• Event-driven microservices architecture
• Performance tuning, profilers
• Platform – Docker/Nginx/Load-balancers

Desirable Technical Skills

• Experience with other mainstream programming languages such Java, Kotlin, .Net.
• Orchestration Stack – Kubernetes/Helm
• Observability – Prometheus, Grafana, ELK etc
• Serverless
• UI frameworks such as Angular/ReactJs
• Our client deploys mostly to AWS, but we are also keen to hear from applicants with Azure or GCP backgrounds as well